Arkansas Weekend: Real Time in real time

Don’t lump Bill Maher, host of HBO’s Real Time, together with those other comedians who host politically oriented TV comedy shows — Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Dennis Miller, Eric E. Harrison writes in Thursday's Arkansas Weekend section.

Maher, who will be doing stand-up Saturday night at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Music Hall, admits there’s a perceptible, though superficial, resemblance, but only for folks who don’t know the genre.

“Is my show like other shows that do political humor? Well, [it’s] more like those shows than Dancing With the Stars,” he says. “But I think for people who are within the community that enjoy political humor, they see a big difference. I mean I hope they do."

Read tomorrow's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for more.

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